Who We Are

Join the Associated Materials Innovations team at Associated Materials, LLC, and be AMazing with us!

At Associated Materials Innovations, we combine our rich history in innovation with an unwavering commitment to continuous improvement of the customer experience. For decades, we have provided vinyl windows, siding, and metal building products that have helped build homes and communities across North America.

As a leading manufacturer of exterior building products and preferred product manufacturer for Alside, you'll have the opportunity to contribute ideas in a welcoming and supportive work environment driven by safety and our core values. Join the AMI team where you can be AMazing as we shape our future together.

The Side Loader Operator is responsible for picking and staging materials on pallets, including coils, boxes of siding (steel, aluminum, and vinyl), and accessories, and arranging finished goods based on destination and location on the shipping dock.

This role operates powered industrial trucks (P.I.T.), such as forklifts, side loaders, reach trucks, and manual pallet jacks, to push, pull, lift, stack, tier, and transport products, equipment, and materials throughout the facility.

The Side Loader Operator also supports fabrication lines by supplying materials such as pallets, cartons, and belts, and retrieving finished goods from production areas.

Essential Job Functions:

• Redistribute finished goods and apply them to customer orders or stock
• Uses computer scanner to put away and locate finished goods
• Verify product accuracy prior to accepting finished goods
• Stage finished goods based on the destination/location
• Retrieve cartons/pallets from trucks, dock or yard
• Update the staging locations on a daily basis
• Receive, sort, distribute resale items
• Report all non-conforming products
• Perform cycle counts
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• 3-6 months' experience in manufacturing facility preferably in a warehouse capacity
• Experience forklift operator; Side Loader exp is a plus
• Excellent communication skills for this hands-on role
• Must be fluent read/writing/speak English
• Pick/Pack and check experience a plus
• Minimum of a High School Diploma
• All facets of housekeeping
• Must be safety conscience

Physical Demands

• To perform this job successfully, the Side Loader Operator is regularly required to manipulate products on a pallet. Specific vision abilities include close/distance, color vision, peripheral vision and depth perception.

Work Environment

• A Side Loader Operator will be exposed to moving mechanical parts and moderate noise levels. The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles and extreme weather conditions. Required PPE must be worn at all times.

When you join AMI, you are part of a leading North American manufacturing business of vinyl windows, cladding, metal siding, trim and other essential exterior building products for residential, light commercial and multifamily projects. In 2022, we introduced our composite cladding system, a first-of-its-kind solution featuring exclusive (GP)2 technology. Headquartered in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, AMI is part of Associated Materials, LLC, which owns and operates multiple manufacturing facilities in North America including a distribution center.

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